The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-11


From Governor OgIesby-The Only Pos
sfbIe eptiOns-PetitiOns for CIemency
Multiplying - An AgitatOr who Needs
Suppressing.
LITTLE HOPE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
CHICAGO, Nov. "A dispatch from
Springfield, Ill, says: The effect of the
decision of the United States Supreme
Court has been largely discounted here
by the firm reliance which the State capi-
tai feels in the Judgment and discretion of
the Attorney General. No one here be-
lieves that Governor Oglesby will pardon
a single one of the condemned men. At
torney-General Hunt knows that as well
as any Of your correspondents, but it
would not be official decorum to say it.
The weakness of the Governor is in his
great heart and gushing humanity. He
loves to give pardons. Nothing would
please him more than to save life by a
just interposition of his prerogative. No
confidence is violated by saying that he
has no opinion that that prerogativo per-
tains to this case, and while he has not de-.
cided beforehand or closed the door to ap-
plications, he has got to see some new
light in this case before he will even stay
the execution by a reprieve.
When Mr.. Cullom was Governor he in
troduced, as a wise precaution, a rule that
he would not hear an application for par
don except upon publication for three
weeks in a local paper where the convic-
ton had taken place. The Legislature
enacted law to that effect. Three weeks
do not exist between the date of the de-
nial Of the writ by the United States Su-
preme Court and the day of execution.
The Governor may say that in such an
emergency he will not adhere to the law.
1t is admitted that he may take this step,
as the power to pardon, being a cOnstitu.
al ho Tod E,y~-
gated by statute. or the Governor may re-
prieYe for q month so that proper appIi-
cation under the statute may be made to
him. He has not yet decided that point,
however, and perhaps that point has not
been raised, but it is very likely that should
the question be pressed on him he would
grant the reprieve.
HOW THEY VIEW THE SITUATION.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 5.-Mrs. Emiline
Wilson, who lives at FIoydsburgh, a vii
lage near this city, is a sister of Governor
Oglesby of Illinois, and reached Louis
vile last night in company with Mrs. v.
P. Brandon, of Decatur, ILL.,, a niece of
Governor Oglesby, on her way home from
a visit to her brother. The United Press
learns from talks with these two ladies
TINT the family and relatives of Governor
Oglesby are much concerned about the re-
sp0nsibility put upon the executive in the
and for that matter the Governor himself
is reported by them as being sore
lY worried by the number of let
ters which have flooded him pray
ing for executive cIemency or threaten
ing him unless he grants pardons, as
we'll as the delegations that are to call up
OIL him to intercede in behalf of the con-
demned. Mrs. Wilson is seventy years
old, and, though her brain is strong and
81 ehn l. 70 %v.o
alone. It is understood from her that
Governor Oglesby has fully resolved not
to interfere with the sentence of the
courts, and she made an Intellectual effort
to persuade her brother to come with her
to his old home in Kentucky, and stay
until after the execution of the Anarch-
lists. This the Governor refused to do,
saying that he would stick it out.
THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS.
CHICAGO. Nov. 4.-The following dis
patch has been received from Springfield;
No petition in the due form of law has
yet been presented to the Governor in the
Anarchists case, and it is not supposed
that any will be for a day or two. 1t ia
probable that the petitions will be brought
here by Captain Black, and the case will
then be presented and very likely argued.
The Governors mail is increasing rapidly,
that of to-day being fully fifty per cent
larger than other days. The burden OF
this increase is matters of advice pro and
con to his Excellency on this case. No
one here believes that any pardon will be
granted, and any communications except
possibly in one or two instances. The
fact that the prosecuting attorneys Office
at Chicago intimated some weeks age
that that Office would not resist a propsi-
tion to commute the sentence of Fielden
and Schwab gives the impression to some
that such may be the result.
PETITIONS FOR CLEMENCY MULTIPLYING.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-Petitions imploring
Governor OgIesby to exercise his high
prerogative in favor of the doomed
Anarchists are multiplying at a rapid
rate. Among others yesterday petition
was drafted and put in circulation by
Rabbi E. g. Hirsch, the distinguished
Jewish divine, and received many sigma
lures. The following well known gentle-
men have signed petitions asking for com
mutation of sentence: Ex-senator Lyman
Trumbull, Judge Moran, Merwin Hughitt,
president of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad; Lyman J. Gage, president of
the First National Bank; J. K. Boysen,
Democratic candidate for State AttOr-
ney. The Amnesty Association has se-
| cured the permission of Mayor Roche 10
place two tables at different points on the
streets in the center of the city for people
| to sign the petitions, and 1t is expected
| several thousand signatures will be OBJ
tanned in this way.
SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED.
New York, Nov. 8. At a crowded
meeting of the Socialist Labor party in
Germania assembly rooms last night, S.
E. Shevitch, editor of the Leader, made a
| speech in which he said: "On Friday,
November II, the greatest crime and most
atrocious murder ever perpetrated is fixed
to take place IN Chicago. But L tell you
| if this crime of base murder is committed,
the end will soon follow. If these heroes
are hanged, the days of all those con
| cerned in the outrage viii be reckoned,
and the day will not be far off when they
will have to answer for the blood they
| shed by every spark of life in their worth
less bodies. loud cheers and cries ''kill
| them" " ''dynamite."l But let them hang.
| Seven mems lives will not harm US. Let
/ them kill seventy thousand, and out OF
| their graves seventy millions will arise
| / tel you if these men are hanged next
/ Friday something thousands Of times
| worse than our late civil war viii follow
| We viii not see it done without acting"
A Chicago Policeman Found Dead.